If you have a detail-oriented staff member who is looking for a career change, you might want to groom her or him for a job as a medical records technician.
A side benefit of the job is that it has made the List of the 10 Least Stressful Jobs for 2015, as identified by job search career portal CareerCast. In fact, it’s No. 4 on the list.
CareerCast’s Least Stressful Jobs for 2015
| Profession |
Stress Score¹ |
Median Salary² |
Projected Growth³ |
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1. |
Hair Stylist |
5.47 |
$22,770 |
13% |
|
2. |
Audiologist |
6.30 |
$69,720 |
34% |
|
3. |
University Professor (Tenured) |
6.94 |
$68,970 |
19% |
|
4. |
Medical Records Technician |
7.55 |
$34,160 |
22% |
|
5. |
Jeweler |
8.10 |
$35,350 |
-10% |
|
6. |
Medical Laboratory Technician |
8.98 |
$47,820 |
22% |
|
7. |
Seamstress/Tailor |
9.56 |
$25,590 |
1% |
|
8. |
Dietitian |
10.23 |
$55,240 |
21% |
|
9. |
Librarian |
10.58 |
$55,370 |
7% |
And while it might seem as though medical office manager should be on the list of the 10 Most Stressful Jobs for 2015, it didn’t make the most stressful list.
CareerCast’s Most Stressful Jobs for 2015
| Profession |
Stress Score¹ |
Median Salary² |
Projected Growth³ |
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1. |
Firefighter |
71.59 |
$45,600 |
7% |
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2. |
Enlisted Military Personnel |
70.78 |
$28,840 |
N/A |
|
3. |
Military General |
63.11 |
$196,300 |
N/A |
|
4. |
Airline Pilot |
60.46 |
$98,410 |
-1% |
|
5. |
Police Officer |
50.82 |
$56,980 |
5% |
|
6. |
Actor |
50.33 |
$46,070 |
4% |
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7. |
Broadcaster |
50.30 |
$60,070 |
2% |
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8. |
Event Coordinator |
49.93 |
$45,810 |
33% |
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9. |
Photojournalist |
49.22 |
$42,530 |
3% |
|
10. |
Newspaper Reporter |
48.76 |
$37,090 |
-13% |
Firefighter, enlisted military personnel, airline pilot, and police officer top CareerCast’s 2015 list of the nation’s most stressful jobs due to their physical danger, unpredictability, and negative psychological effects. People in these high-stress jobs work in constantly changing conditions, must be prepared for a crisis and be ready to keep people safe without losing their cool.
Of course, not all of the most stressful jobs of 2015 involve personal risk. Event coordinators, who are entrusted with seeing that the expectations of large groups are met without problem, face tight deadlines and high expectations. Rounding out the most stressful jobs are actor, broadcaster, photojournalist and lastly, newspaper reporter, which has a negative job growth of -13 percent, an average median salary of $37,090, and faces the constant threat of layoffs.
"Stress can come from a variety of factors, including tight deadlines, long hours, and the need to put your life on the line while protecting others," says Tony Lee, publisher of CareerCast.com. "It takes a thick skin and keen attention detail to thrive in environments fraught with hazards and long hours."
If your life is already filled with stress, CareerCast suggests you consider a profession that offers job security, a good hiring outlook and salary, but few physical demands, deadlines, and danger. If you spend your days working one-on-one with others helping them in some way, and your schedule tends to be set more by you than by others, you likely have a job with a healthy stress level. "Job satisfaction and the pleasure of helping others can certainly go a long way to outweighing stress," says Lee.
CareerCast’s Stress Score¹ methodology considered 11 different job demands, which can reasonably be expected to evoke stress, including deadlines, growth potential, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, own life at risk, and life of another at risk.
Median Annual Salary² and Projected Hiring Growth by 2022³ are via the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
